Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American RevolutionListen up You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt

Listen up You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?

Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner prove the case in this entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to those independent dames

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9780689858086
Pages: 37
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 10.20h x 11.30w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/26/2008 pg. 65
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/2008 pg. 539
School Library Journal 08/01/2008 pg. 107
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2008 pg. 605
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 123474 / Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 1